WorldQuant·Software Engineer

WorldQuant Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Jun 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in pretty unexpectedly after an open day at my university.

A company employee had a long conversation with me about what the role would look like, and I shared some background knowledge I had from my own work. He seemed genuinely impressed and asked for my CV and grades, so I ended up getting a follow-up phone call.

The process then moved quickly into an online assessment: I was asked to take a 90-minute quiz. What surprised me was how disconnected it felt from the job I applied for—it barely seemed related to the position at all. I didn’t end up getting an offer, and overall it left me with the impression that the evaluation was more of a generic

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